VC gamers in Europe only get one game tonight in what seems to be becoming a trend for recent releases on the VC. C'mon Nintendo, surely you can give us more games than this each week? Anyway, lets not look a gift horse in the mouth - when the game is as good as Super Street Fighter II on the SNES who can complain?

For somebody only wishing to buy one Street Fighter game on the VC this is probably your best bet. It has the most options, its got Cammy, Fei Long, DeeJay and T. Hawk and a number of gameplay refinements that make this a great buy.

Lets hope our pals at Nintendo are planning a bit more choice for next weeks VC Friday. Surely there are a few more Megadrive games Sega could throw at them?

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Yikes, times seem to be getting a bit tough in this new year. One game? Im one of those suckers that have already bought the previous two street fighter releases on VC, and, ah, yeah im gonna get this one too I dont care I just love street fighter! Unfortunatly I think Nintendo know guys like me exist. Never got to play this one as I had a mega-drive when I was small, so I dont know if its any good or not. Incidently, WHATS GOIN ON WITH THE LACK OF MEGA-DRIVE GAMES!!!

Will, you'll notice that the majority of MegaDrive/Genesis titles are produced by Sega themselves. Maybe Sega are running out of games they created themselves to put on VC? I don't know why they don't let other companies put their games on VC... still if its Sega week next week, we'll probably get Ecco Jr. and Eternal Champions.

Great week! This is one of those big marquee games, and it's good to finally have it on the VC. I guess some people are upset that they didn't get two token crappy games out of the way at the same time, but meh.

Week 4 - If a new Wii version for an existing popular gaming series is coming out next week, release an older version of the game now so people will snap it up, play it for a week and then when they get the Wii version move onto that...Mix the above options for maximum confusion and frustration at not knowing what will be coming out next week...

With the addition of the Turbo Graphix, NEO GEO and Mega Drive along with every pre-gamecube Nintendo console why do Nintendo think they can get away with such small updates!? Anyways, is this game playable at all with a GC controller or should I just hold out til I buy a classic controller or even better and arcade stick?

I'd trade every Canadian exclusive for megaman 2 and 1080, lol. I for one don't really mind 1/2 games per week, gives me more incentive to finish the vc games I haven't yet (old games are HARD, curse you Metroid). SSFII is great btw, but I haven't beat lolo so I'm not really hurtin for the 2nd one yet...

I wish Nintendo could just release the same games everywhere, however unlikely that is.

It strikes me with all these sequels coming out within a relatively short time-scale (3 street fighters in a about one year) that it would be good if there was some sort of offer in place for those who have purchased previous installments. Perhaps they could make this version of Street Fighter half price for those who have already got the previous two. I know this is highly unlikely to happen, but it's just a thought.On another note, the reason there may be fewer VC games recently may be the fact that the Wii release schedule has been pretty packed recently (in the UK at least). What with Zack & Wiki, Nights, Ghost Squad, Geometry Wars etc. Perhaps Nintendo thought it should save a few games until the release schedule has slowed.

Well i'm guessing the slow release is because nintendo only got a few games left to release .Making them last till Nintendo can get the licence to release a lot of games later on as not all games are released by the manufactures of the virtual console console's .Any by the way i'm getting tired of these complaints from virtual console like costing too much or the fact it's not there favourite title .Well the games are pretty cheap & besides some games i might hate but others love .& Damo i loved you comment .Sounds like you love your Xbox 360/heater .

"The VC is obviously going to slow down eventually, some people are just can't accept that.."

Why would it obviously slow down when less than 1% of available games have been released? Why should I "just” accept that no decent RPG has been released, or that Nintendo is seemingly focusing on a single genre (fighting) to the exclusion of all others?

Please explain why I must accept this of a system I paid cold hard cash on, based on the unfulfilled promise of good classics to be released on the VC?

"Well i'm guessing the slow release is because nintendo only got a few games left to release ."

Are you kidding?! Adding together all the games of SNES, NES, MD/Gen, TG16/PCe, N64, NG and- as I hear- soon to come SMS there are Virtually t-h-u-o-s-a-n-d-s of Games that could still be released! And if only 1% of those was worth playing they would still have years to fill with them, even at a rate of 3+ games a week. So, to make this point as clear as possible: if people complain, they mostly complain about missed opportunity, and they have every right to do so!

Lets do a little calculating here: One year has 52 weeks. Let us be especially optimistic and say NoE releases a game extra on X-mas like they did on last year and DOES NOT skip a friday in return, so thats a likely max. of 53 release dates a year. Now take the average live-span of a modern console, wich would be set at about 5-6 years (beeing optimistic about that too- I'm not so sure if Wii will last so long with the current policy of Nintendo...). So that would be:

53x6=318 dates to release games on...

Now, if todays routine continues with 1-2 games a week that will be:

318x1,5=469 games to come.

Tough it may be true that Nintendo at some time will be running out of OWN titles to release, they'd have to be plain stupid to be unable to strike deals with other companies. Acclaim, Konami, Rare... those were the Lables that fueld Nintendo's machines in the '80s and '90s. And I know several guys who would purchase a Wii if they could download all those classic Square games, speaking of FinalFantasy, Cronotrigger and the lot...

This is not taking into account the on-coming wii-ware titles, that most likely will play a more and more importan role in the later time of the wii, yet.

Personally, MY biggest hope has always been that the PAL-market get's to see all those games that never made it out of japan or the US on VC, but as it is, this dream is quickly turning into nightmare. Best to ignore VC and hope the releases of hard wii-games compensate for this mess?

And, BTW, yes, I love todays release of SSF2, too. Hope that Sega will be throwing in theyr MD-Version some time soon

Damo made a pretty good point up there if you guys didn't see it. XBLA gamers get one retro game a month, if they're lucky. Although the Tron Arcade Game was released recently (in the US), that was t he first XBLA game I bought in months.

I think the last VC game I bought was Alien Storm, but still, there are more choices on the VC nonetheless. If you're only going to get one game this week, it doesn't get much better than SSFII.

But we are talking VC here, not XBLA. MS just does not have those decades of gaming history that Nintendo has. And Bill Gates' pet console has all the money behind it could need. Plus, whenever there is a 'classic' showing up n XBL, it's actually from some other system, be it from consoles or arcade machines, right? Heck, they're taking Goldeneye, whose classic do you think this is?!

I'm just saying that Nintendo has a heritage, maybe the biggest of all videogame companies today. How Big-N lives up to it's history is up to them...

KhaoShar, GoldenEye 007 is Rare's classic, and Rare is owned by Microsoft. Thus, it's Microsoft's classic. They're not going to release all of their first party games in a big rush, expecting to be able to license more. I think it's a pretty good move to slow down until they can secure more games on the VC for sure. Expect releases to pick up when Nintendo signs another licensee or gets another console on board. And soon enough we'll also have WiiWare to think about, so the VC cutbacks won't seem as drastic.